Something you never knew

[cochise]

Kayak is spelt the same back to front as it is front to back…..that’s my liimkt

In other words it's a palindrome.

My wife birthday in 2002 was:
20022002 and she was 44.

my son was born on the stroke of midnight 00:00 on 20/02/2000

would have turned 20 on the 20/02/2020

 

[Go_You_Good_Things]

I believe the word "facetious" is the only word in the English language that has all the vowels in ascending order.

 

[Tiger5150]

Kayak is spelt the same back to front as it is front to back…..that’s my liimkt

In other words it's a palindrome.

My wife birthday in 2002 was:
20022002 and she was 44.

my son was born on the stroke of midnight 00:00 on 20/02/2000

would have turned 20 on the 20/02/2020

Correct.

 

[Tiger5150]

My oldest daughter was the second baby born in Australia in 1997. 12.25am 1/1/97

I was once the youngest person in the world.

 

[full80]

Nectarines are just peaches that don't express the fuzzy skin gene. Same species.

There are actually lots about fruit. All cavendish bananas are genetic clones. Navel oranges cannot reproduce unaided (no seeds) and are, like the cavendish, all clones of a mutation from Brazil. Almonds technically are not nuts and are closely related to apricots and plums. The Granny Smith apple originated in Australia and is a chance cultivar from local breeding; Granny Smith was a real person.

There's no such species as a "panther". Panthera is the genus that contains tigers, lions, jaguars etc. A "black panther" is actually a melanistic jaguar or leopard.

The tusk of a narwhal is actually an elongated tooth that grows through the narwhal's lip.

The "smell" of rain is called petrichor and was first coined by Australian scientists.

You can't buy "pear cider". Cider can only be made from apples. The fermented pear drink is called "perry".

Madeira cake is not Portuguese - it's British, and the name comes from the use of Madeira wine.

I could read this stuff all day. Thanks

 

[TheDaBoss]

Pognophobia is the fear of beards

@cochise

 

[mikey]

Kayak is spelt the same back to front as it is front to back…..that’s my liimkt

In other words it's a palindrome.

Ahh yeah sure…. A palindrome.
You’re way smarter than me Mikey!

Nope. Just work-related stuff. I'm sure there would be a lot of things in your work I would be clueless about

 

[mikey]

Kayak is spelt the same back to front as it is front to back…..that’s my liimkt

In other words it's a palindrome.

My wife birthday in 2002 was:
20022002 and she was 44.

Cool

 

[mikey]

Longest city name in the world is the formal name for Bangkok.
Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Yuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit
Love getting my Thai students to say it in class. Freaks them out because they have to get it right (national pride); and the other students because it's just so crazy.

 

[cochise]

Pognophobia is the fear of beards

@cochise

I do not suffer from that.

 

[innsaneink]



Collins took this picture of the Lunar Module, containing Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong with Earth in the background, during the Apollo 11 mission. This makes him the only person ever to have lived who was not inside the frame of the photo. Matter cannot be created or destroyed.

That means that every human that lived up to the point of this photo being taken still exists, at least in some form, and every human that has been born since then was also is in this photo, at least in some form. So even if you were born after this picture was taken, the materials you’re made from are still on the frame of this picture.

For his second and final mission in space, Collins served as command module pilot for Apollo 11. While fellow astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made the first manned landing on the lunar surface, Collins waited on board ofthe module for 21 and a half hours. As the command module drifted behind the moon, cutting off his communication with Earth, he wrote:

“This venture has been structured for three men, and I consider my third to be as necessary as either of the other two. I don’t mean to deny a feeling of solitude. It is there, reinforced by the fact that radio contact with the Earth abruptly cuts off at the instant I disappear behind the moon, I am alone now, truly alone, and absolutely isolated from any known life. I am it. If a count were taken, the score would be three billion plus two over on the other side of the moon, and one plus God knows what on this side”.

In a July 2009 interview with The Guardian, Collins revealed that he was very worried about Armstrong and Aldrin’s safety. He was also concerned that, in the event of their deaths on the Moon, he would be forced to return to Earth alone and, as the mission’s sole survivor, be regarded as “a marked man for life”.

 

[jadtiger]

Pognophobia is the fear of beards

@cochise

I do not suffer from that.

I hope your wife doesn't either

 

[Pascoes_barber]

My mother and I celebrated our 8th birthday a week apart.

29 Feb and 22 Feb/7 March I take it?

 

[jirskyr]

ave a large enough wheelhouse

My "wheelhouse" has been expanding ever since COVID hit.

 

[jirskyr]

So even if you were born after this picture was taken, the materials you’re made from are still on the frame of this picture.

That's not perfectly true. About 500 meteorites hit the Earth's surface every year, and scores more burn up in the atmosphere. That means technically atoms and molecules are being introduced in very small amounts to the Earth every year, and there is some chance that some of those atoms/molecules have been incorporated into the bodies of people born since 1969.

 

[innsaneink]

Just testing ya

 

[tig_prmz]

So even if you were born after this picture was taken, the materials you’re made from are still on the frame of this picture.

That's not perfectly true. About 500 meteorites hit the Earth's surface every year, and scores more burn up in the atmosphere. That means technically atoms and molecules are being introduced in very small amounts to the Earth every year, and there is some chance that some of those atoms/molecules have been incorporated into the bodies of people born since 1969.

https://c.tenor.com/1FHlHpqRvNYAAAAM/that70s-show-burn.gif

 

[jirskyr]

There is nothing I don't know..

Humility.

 

[jirskyr]

Kayak is spelt the same back to front as it is front to back…..that’s my liimkt

In other words it's a palindrome.

Yawn a more Roman way.

 

[jirskyr]

Tiger urine smells like buttered popcorn.

Everyone knows that, because we are all subjected Tiger piss every week.